This Week

THERE’S MORE TO the recovering Rockaways than the beach. A sprawling art festival, co-hosted by the Rockaway Artists Alliance, the National Park Service, and MOMA PS1 (among other organizations), kicked off in late June with a concert by Patti Smith, whose black-and-white photographs and site-specific installations occupy two galleries and one derelict building on the grounds of Fort Tilden. Nearby, the seraphic strains of Janet Cardiff’s “Forty Part Motet,” a sound piece based on a sixteenth-century choral work by Thomas Tallis, fill a military chapel. Down the road, works by more than seventy-five international artists—from the boldfaced Marina Abramović to the brilliant French newcomer Camille Henrot—vie for attention in a group show at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club.

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